Recruiters aren’t keeping job opportunities from local people, Recruitment and Employment Confederation Chief Executive said in response to accusations from UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn that recruitment agencies were bringing in EU workers at the expense of British born workers.

Corbyn’s remarks came during a speech on Brexit, which also included plans to curb excessive pay and income inequality.

“Jeremy Corbyn’s attempt to re-imagine himself as the UK’s Donald Trump appears to include the original’s loose relationship with the truth. All jobs must be advertised in the UK and in English — that is the law. Discrimination on the basis of nationality is prohibited and no recruiter is keeping job opportunities from local people — that simply isn’t happening”.

Green continued: “The UK economy needs people from overseas as we don’t have enough British-born workers to fill the jobs currently available. Jeremy Corbyn concedes the NHS relies on foreign staff, but sounds as if he wants to discriminate against EU workers coming to the UK to work in other industries like construction, food manufacturing and retail. There’s no logic to his position which arbitrarily favours some sectors over others when British people all need healthcare, homes and affordable food on the table. Hard working immigrants support our economy to grow, they don’t undercut it.”